Hello,
I would like to announce the availability of a prototype
implementation of a type inference engine for a functional language
with subtyping. Code-named Wallace, the prototype implements the
constraint simplification algorithms described in my PhD thesis.
This source code release mainly serves two purposes:
* To allow experimentation with a functional language equipped with
subtyping and fully automatic type inference. Such a language might be
used, for instance, to test some simple encodings of object oriented
programming into lambda calculus.
* To allow interested researchers to examine the actual implementation
of the algorithms described in my thesis. Although the engine as a
whole is a prototype with many rough edges, the main simplification
algorithms have been carefully implemented and optimized.
It should be stressed that this program is not usable as a
full-fledged programming language.
Full source code is available from
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/wallace/wallace.html.en
Thank you,
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François Pottier
Francois.Pottier@inria.fr
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~fpottier/